A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction on Monday, halting the Trump administration’s latest efforts to impose new restrictions on visas primarily used by students and international journalists.
The changes would have severely limited the duration of visas for journalists working in the United States for international news outlets, and placed additional restrictions on how long students can remain in this country and whether they could change or extend their planned studies.
In his decision, the judge noted that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to provide any reasonable explanation for why it needed to cut the time international journalists are permitted to work in the country to a maximum of 240 days. Currently, journalists admitted on this type of visa can stay for multiple years.
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